Brooklyn Book Talk

Giving book lovers in Brooklyn -- and elsewhere -- an opportunity to discuss literature and philosophy. Facilitated by staff of Brooklyn Public Library (BPL).

Friday, May 16, 2014

When Good People Write Bad Sentences, by Robert Harris

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All great writing starts with a sentence. But what is it that makes a sentence great?  Could it be grammar, syntax, style, word choice, inf...
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Friday, March 7, 2014

Six Great Ideas, by Mortimer Adler

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Dr. Mortimer J. Adler, who was chairman of the Board of Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica, an editor of the Great Books of Western Civil...
Thursday, January 2, 2014

Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism, by Franklin Newton Painter

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“As a rule,” urges Franklin Newton Painter in his critically acclaimed classic, Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism ,   “we should read...
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Monday, November 4, 2013

Sketch for a Self-Analysis, by Pierre Bourdieu

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Pierre Bourdieu, a philosopher by education, and an anthropologist and sociologist by choice, is one of the most esteemed names in twentiet...
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Friday, September 6, 2013

Discipline and Punish, by Michel Foucault

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Discipline and Punish (1975), is a genealogy of power based on particulars of penal history, and is considered Foucault’s “out-of-the-ord...
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013

The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant

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“And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who le...
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Sunday, June 30, 2013

The Green Knowe Books & Multiculturalism in Children's Literature

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Recently while listening to WNYC, I heard a segment about the lack of diversity in children's literature. While the US's population...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Childhood and Exploring Nature

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When I reread the Green Knowe books, what struck me most about them was how much time the children in the books - Tolly, Ping, Ida, Oskar, S...
Saturday, May 25, 2013

Visiting Lucy Boston's House, Part 2

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Since we were early for our 2 PM house tour, we decided to explore the gardens. Lucy talks about designing and building the gardens in her m...

Visiting Lucy Boston's House

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Two weeks ago, some friends and I toured Lucy Boston's house and garden. My friend Val had read Boston's books; her husband Dave had...
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